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Recently I occurred a heap corruption bug in one of my real life projects:
Kernel panic - aborting: at /home/kazurin/.cargo/registry/src/rsproxy.cn-8f6827c7555bfaf8/linked_list_allocator-0.9.1/src/hole.rs:311: attempt to add with overflow
It took me long before I was able to discover the root cause, due to the complication of kernel debugging and the need to read the source code of various crates. It might be handy to have some simple heap canary mechanism (just like what Valgrind does) built into the allocator in such cases.
Features that I consider useful:
- Ability to detect the corruption of heap control structures (namely the
Holes) using some predefined magic bytes in the structure - Ability to reveal the corrupted structure's address in the panic message (for easier debugging)
- Ability to verify the integrity of the whole heap at any time
- The heap canary feature should be completely optional, in order not to cause preformance impact on production code
If such features are acceptable but not planned, perhaps I could do a PR in the future :)